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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Pelly | | First Name(s) | Lewis | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir | | Birth Year | 1825 | | Death Year | 1892 | | Entry | Born Nov. 14, 1825 : son of John Hinde Pelly : educated at Rugby : joined the E. I. Co.'s Bombay army, 1841 : Lt-General, 1887 : Assistant Resident at Baroda, 185 1-2 : A.D.C. to John Jacob in the Persian war, 1857: Secretary of Legation at Teheran and Charge d' Affaires, 1859 : rode from Persia to India through Herat and Kandahar, without escort : on a special Mission to the Comoro Islands, 1861 : Political Agent at Zanzibar, 1861-2 : Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, 1862-71 : active in suppressing the slave trade : visited Riyadh, the capital of Nejd, Central Arabia, 1865 : C.S.I. , 1868 : with Sir Bartle Frere's (q-v.) Mission to Zanzibar, 1872-3 : A.G.G., Rajputana, 1874 : K.C.S.I. : was Special Commissioner to Baroda in 1874 to inquire into the Gaekwar's maladmistration, whom he arrested in Jan. 1875, preparatory to his trial : conducted negotiations at Peshawar with the Amir's Envoy, Nur Muhammad Shah, Jan. 1877: K.C.B., 1877, and retired: M.P. for N. Hackney, 1885-92 : died April 22, 1892 : wrote The Views and Opinions of Brig-General John lacob, C.B., 1858 : The Miracle Play of Husan and Husain, 1879 : on the North-West Frontier of India, 1858 ; and papers for the Royal Geographical Society. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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